Don’t you need to find out what the pixels per inch of the display is first?
At 72 dpi or ppi, a pixel = a point.
Can you get that info first?
> On Jun 8, 2020, at 4:43 PM, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev
> wrote:
>
> I know this mailing list might not be the perfect fit for my question,
> you're not taking into account the current screen resolution (a.k.a. display
> mode). The user
> [...]
> necessarily have to build a C utility for it. You can invoke the Swift
> interpreter to execute
Thanks a lot for your hints, but unfortunately , I don't have the time to learn
Swift or
> In particular, you're not taking into account the current screen resolution
> (a.k.a. display mode). The user can select different scaling for a Retina
> display in System Preferences > Displays.
Good point.
I wasn't taking that into consideration.
So, what would be a robust way to determine
>
> I don’t have an answer to your question, but to add some clarity Points are
> scale factor independent unit of measurement. On a retina display there are
> 2 pixels per point. On a non-retina display there is 1 pixel per point. Say
> Apple comes out with a display with a scale
Thanks a
